We loved these films so much that we’ve included them as part of ScreenDance Miami 2024 Opening Night.
Join us for ScreenDance Miami’s opening night program featuring filmmakers working in Canada, Colombia, England, and the US. These films will also be screened at a different location later in the festival as part of the Official Selections.
Parades (2022, 16:52 min, FL Premiere, Quebec)
Alan Lake
Parades is an initiation to a mysterious pagan feast made by powerful images between a fantasy and an allegory.
Moth (2023, 5:17 min, FL Premiere, Asheville/NC)
Kate Weare
Moth, a ghost story, explores female desire in a darkened space of imagination using a single light source: a lantern. The film complicates ideas of sexual objectification, guilt, and loss by tracing the flux of whose feelings matter most in an act of coupling.
The Noise My Leaves Make (2022, 6:56 min, Florida Premiere, Leicester/England)
Tia-Monique Uzor
The Noise My Leaves Make follows three dark-skinned Black women as they dance through the Leicestershire environment. As Black British women, this space has been denied to them as a place of belonging. Through their movement, these three women claim the countryside as their own finding sisterhood, connection, and joy.
Thick Skin (2023, 2:51 min, Florida Premiere, Bogotá/Colombia)
Laura Steiner
To live in Bogotá, you need a skin than can adapt: that can turn reptilian when it’s raining and that can go soft when you get a free coffee from the corner shop. Thick Skin takes you through Bogotá with stylized movement that speaks of life in the bustling city.
Carmen (2023, 4:36 min, US Premiere, Miami)
Carla Forte and Alexey Taran
Carmen is a dance for camera in which the character tells the story through her body, creating new body language.
>>> Total length: 37 min
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Eventz Paul is currently the Technical Director and Productions Manager at Miami Light Project. He has been a part of this organization since 2011. He participated in Miami Light Project’s first class of the Technical Fellowship Program held at The Light Box. He joined this program hoping to improve his existing theater skills. He received training from experts in the industry that mentored and further his theater technical skills. Now, he has successfully used his professional knowledge and has had the opportunity to work with various arts organizations and venues throughout Miami including Miami Theater Center, National Young Arts Foundation, the Colony Theatre and many more. He has become an instructor and conducts audiovisual classes to incoming technical fellows.
Beth Boone has been the Artistic & Executive Director of Miami Light Project since 1998, developing critically acclaimed artistic programs that have asserted the organization as one of the leading cultural institutions in South Florida. These programs include: the establishment of Here & Now, South Florida’s most respected commission and presenting program for community-based artists; premiere presentations of internationally acclaimed; pioneering historic international cultural exchange with Cuba; and the creation of The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse, a multi-use performance and visual art space in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. She previously served as Associate Director of Development for Florida Grand Opera, Deputy Director for the Department of Cultural Affairs at Miami Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, co-founded an Off Broadway theater company (New York Rep), and served for six years as a Program Associate in the Arts & Culture Program of the AT&T Foundation. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and a MFA in Theater Arts from Brandeis University in Boston, MA.
